The Republican National Committee is refusing to cover Donald Trump’s legal fees relating to the FBI’s investigation and retrieval of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago.
A source told Politico that Trump will have to pay his own way after he hired Florida’s former solicitor general Chris Kise to represent him in the case.
The RNC has been paying Trump’s legal bills since October 2021. Between then and July 2022, the committee has paid nearly two million dollars to firms representing Trump, according to Federal Election Commission filings. Some firms are defending him in investigations into his personal family business in New York.
The RNC made it clear that they will stop paying Trump’s legal bills if he officially announce that he is running for president because the party has a “neutrality policy” that prohibits it from taking sides in the presidential primary, ABC news reports. Trump has hinted that he plans to run for office again but has not made it official.
Even though the RNC appeared to have cut off Trump, the former president is not cash-strapped as he has raked in millions since the FBI executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago to retrieve classified documents.
According to the Washington Post, Trump bombarded his supporters with 100 emails in the days after the search asking for contributions to his PAC. Donations reportedly topped $1 million on at least two days after search.
